usgs_staff_profile:
meta: url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/maria-c-dzul timestamp: '2024-01-30T13:48:47.925019' status_code: 200 profile: name: Maria C Dzul, PhD name_qualifier: null titles: - Biologist organizations: - !!python/tuple - Southwest Biological Science Center - https://www.usgs.gov/centers/southwest-biological-science-center email: mdzul@usgs.gov orcid: 0000-0002-4798-5930 intro_statements: - Maria develops models to estimate abundance and assess environmental drivers of fish population dynamics in the Grand Canyon ecosystem. expertise_terms: - fish ecology - population models - mark-recapture - partial migration - Colorado River - autonomous PIT antennas - fish growth - humpback chub professional_experience: [] education: - "2003 \u2013 B.S., Biology, University of Michigan" - "2011 \u2013 M.S., Wildlife Ecology, Iowa State University" - "2021 \u2013 PhD, Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University" affiliations: [] honors: [] abstracts: [] personal_statement: "Maria\u2019s research interests include: 1) evaluating links\ \ between floods, temperature, and life history of fishes, 2) developing approaches\ \ for integrating detections from autonomous PIT antennas into mark-recapture\ \ models to improve estimation of survival, movement, and abundance, 3) using\ \ population models to guide decision making, and 4) alternative life history\ \ strategies and partial migration in fishes."